Hey everybody

[bluejay443]

Thanks Waterlily..your advice and common sense is very much appreciated and needed. And a shout out to everyone else for reiterating my concerns, it's good to know I'm not the only one on either side of the issue.

[nifty]

I have a filter. I tried k9... but found it wasn't good enough. It was too easy to find my way around it. I have now got a better filter, and that's helped heaps.
The way I see it is that I'm not trying to be strong, I'm trying to stay away from p***
I'm trying to be smart and beat this battle when I'm not being tempted (ie putting a filter up, blocking sites that I know can be a trigger, going online in public places, having a phone without internet access, whatever it takes). Like I said, the goal is to get the p*** out of my life.

As for the long term, yeah sure, there will come times when I don't have my filter there to "protect" me. But I have to find a way to stop this addiction now. To make a change, to break it. If I break the constant need for it every day, by using a filter, then down the track hopefully it will be easier to say no. Because right now, I'm not strong enough to say No.

People go to camps and stuff to break other addictions. Completely remove it from their lives so that they can start to deal with the issues in their lives. If you can't turn to porn, you'll be forced to learn new ways of dealing with things. Get those good habits into practice in a safe environment, away from p***.

That's the way I see it, anyway. I use safe eyes. Which isn't free. And I got my friend to set it all up for me. It overblocks... blocks some of the pages on here. But it's better then the alternative. And I am willing to start making those changes to get this out of my life